Unfortunately I do not yet have access to the data set that I will be doing my fellows work on as such I created a mini/fake project with some NHANES data. Based on my personal experience as a pediatrician I thought that infants who were lower birthweight but otherwise healthy would later have higher BMI (these parents tend to overfeed and my two biggest kids in continuity clinic as a resident were premies). In any event, I spent a lot of time cleaning the data and doing the table 1 but when I went to do the analysis and produce a figure it does not appear as if there is really any difference between the two groups. At least not graphically. Is it ok to have a negative result for the purpose of this assignment? Or should I re-think the project and find something where there is a big difference and make a graph out of that?
Thanks for your help.
Danielle